Fundraising Manager

Join us in seeing our vision come to life, where living in Letchworth Garden City offers everyone the opportunity to flourish as part of a vibrant community, enjoy the best that both town and country offers, and benefit from easy access to nature with unrivalled facilities, culture, and support networks.   

This is a key role where you will lead and develop the Foundation’s Fundraising strategy to support the delivery of our charitable objectives and strategic aims. Working with internal colleagues and external funders, you will ensure we secure sufficient income to deliver practical impact through our services.

You will work with collaboratively with stakeholders to create compelling funding applications and lead the fundraising activity to ensure efficient processes and maximisation of opportunity.

Key areas of focus include Arts, Culture & Heritage; Environment & Wellbeing; Community impact and social change, some knowledge and a keen interest in this area is key. 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 3 – 5 years’ experience of working in a fundraising role, with experience of developing and implementing a fundraising strategy and evaluating its effectiveness.
• Experience of writing Cases for Support and presenting compelling advocacy materials to support a fundraising strategy
• Experience of researching grant opportunities as well as developing tools and resources to support grant applications
• Experience of managing funder communications and relations
• Track record of securing and managing multi-year revenue funding with annual targets of £250k upwards.

OUR VALUES:

Collaborative.  Evidence-based.  Inclusive.  Supportive.
We are a people business. We look for passionate people who will help us to meet our vision and values. Our values demonstrate our principles and guide our actions. We want our values to come to life through people’s experience of each other and the Foundation as whole - ultimately helping create a culture that ensures our commitment to achieving our vision and mission.

Applications must include a CV and a covering statement/letter explaining why you are applying for the role.  Applications without a covering statement may not be accepted.  

Please note if we receive a large volume of applications for this role, we reserve the right to close the vacancy ahead of the published closing date.